Go Gigoit! 1
Everybody, meet Gigoit. This pretty little app is designed for anyone who needs to get rid of some of their stuff. Think of it as Ebay for the do-gooder crowd. Say, for example, you have an old recliner in your apartment. It takes up a lot of room, and nobody ever sits on it, but it’s so big and bulky, you never get around to donating it. Maybe you’re the lazy type who’ll just put it out on the curb with a sign that says “free.”
Well, lazy types, I have good news for you. Gigoit is a great forum for you to list your unwanted items and give them away free. Just upload a photo and a description (using their wonderfully seamless forms) and wait for other people in your community to claim your unwanted possessions.
Gigoit is an updated form of freecycle.com, which uses clunky Yahoo user group messaging for its listings. This easy-to-use alternative is a fantastic way to give away (and get) things in an earth-friendly way. It’s recycling at its best. That it’s free and well designed is just icing on the cake.
Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of users yet. But I’m sure we’ve all got stuff sitting around that we need to get rid of. Do your part and post something that you’ve been meaning to get rid of!
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Erin, thank you for the kind words. We went live on January 1st of this year so our userbase is still somewhat small. Many of our users are located near us in the St. Louis, Missouri area. To see how the get area of the site looks when there are items in your area feel free to use my zip code, 63143, as an example. Here’s a quick link:
http://www.gigoit.org/get.php?z=63143
-John Kramlich (Vice President of Gigoit)